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For the Schools: Science and Life: Transport and Communications: 4: Flying

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The place: Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
The date: December 17, 1903
The time: noon
Wilbur Wright, using a monorail track and a biplane fitted with skids, made the longest flight of the day - 852 feet in 59 seconds. Powered flight had arrived.
Introduced by Arthur Garratt.
(BBC recording of the programme shown on May 13)
(to 11.45)

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Presenter:
Arthur Garratt
Illustrator:
Alfred Wurmser
Producer:
Donald Grattan
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